Prof. Sasani Receives $540K NSF Grant
Associate Professor Mehrdad Sasani was awarded a $540K grant from NSF’s George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation to determine the effect of seismic activity on reinforced concrete framed buildings. This project will utilize hybrid simulation to simulate near-collapse response of existing vulnerable reinforced concrete buildings through the integration of large-scale physical experiments and computational models. The application of system-level evaluation strategies developed in this project will lead to cost-effective rehabilitation methods for existing non-ductile reinforced concrete buildings against collapse by identifying and prioritizing buildings susceptible to partial or total collapse.
Professor Sasani received both his MS and BS from Tehran Polytechnic in 1987 and 1985, respectively. He received his PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001. Sasani’s experties lies with Progressive Collapse of Structures, Earthquake Engineering, and Structural Reliability. In 2006, he received the CAREER Development Award from the National Science Foundation.
His award abstract can be found here.